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Looking at the etymology of "pike", we see that it originally came from "turnpike", meaning a toll road. According to the Online Etymology Dictionary:
turnpike
c.1420, "spiked road barrier used for defense," from turn + pike (2) "shaft." Sense transf. to "horizontal cross of timber, turning on a vertical pin" (1547), which were used to bar horses from foot roads. This led to the sense of "barrier to stop passage until a toll is paid" (1678). Meaning "road with a toll gate" is from 1748, shortening of turnpike road (1745).
So turnpikes, or pikes, were originally roads with barriers (now tolls), whereas a road or a drive can be any kind of road/street.
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